{"id":4615,"date":"2003-12-01T21:27:39","date_gmt":"2003-12-02T01:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2003\/12\/01\/no-its-not-about-that\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T15:00:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T19:00:36","slug":"no-its-not-about-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2003\/12\/01\/no-its-not-about-that\/","title":{"rendered":"No, It&#8217;s Not About THAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a360\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: x-small\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.overlawyered.com\/\">Walter Olson<\/a> must be doing his job too well.\u00a0 Despite my <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2003\/11\/29#a352\">promise<\/a> two days ago\u00a0to be less cynical about lawyers, I had the same old reaction to this headline from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.com\/jsp\/article.jsp?id=1069801654630&amp;specArtType=newsInBrief\">Law.Com Daily Newswire<\/a> (Dec. 1, 2003): <\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: x-small\"><span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;color: blue;font-size: small\"><strong>15 Minutes, $100 Million<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size: x-small\">I immediately thought, &#8220;damn, another outlandish contingency fee!&#8221;\u00a0 Luckily, the emergent pollyanna in me was quickly restored, when I\u00a0read that <strong>&#8220;<\/strong><strong>Intel will have 15 minutes to save $100 million<\/strong> today as it tries to persuade a federal appeals court that its Itanium chips do not infringe patents held by Intergraph.&#8221; <\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size: x-small\">As I work out the details of\u00a0this revamped website, I shall also be working on my attitude, and not speculating on the fee for those 15 minutes.\u00a0 Pretty soon, you might not recognize the firebrand who wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prairielaw.com\/articles\/article.asp?channelId=29&amp;subId=124&amp;articleId=1336\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/stories\/storyReader$71\">this<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;color: red;font-size: x-small\"><strong>P.S. <\/strong><span style=\"color: black\">No, the <em>Bar &amp; Grill<\/em> is not officially opened yet.\u00a0 But, the <\/span><span style=\"color: red\"><em>haikuesque<\/em><span style=\"color: black\"><em> <\/em>dessert cart is stocked (in the Right Margin).\u00a0 Today, in addition to my <em>very<\/em> humble offerings, you&#8217;ll find one poem each from two of my favorite English-language haiku poets.\u00a0\u00a0 I hope to win converts to this often-maligned and misunderstood genre.\u00a0 With its brevity and seeming simplicity, I believe it is the perfect art form for the busy lawyer.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walter Olson must be doing his job too well.\u00a0 Despite my promise two days ago\u00a0to be less cynical about lawyers, I had the same old reaction to this headline from the Law.Com Daily Newswire (Dec. 1, 2003): 15 Minutes, $100 Million I immediately thought, &#8220;damn, another outlandish contingency fee!&#8221;\u00a0 Luckily, the emergent pollyanna in me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1cr","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14101,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions\/14101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}